My HP Pavillion Notebook loads normally until the welcome screen, just before it would normally display the list of users. It makes the start-up sound and then freezes on that blue screen that says "Welcome". It just started doing this all of a sudden. I didn't make any major changes before this.

any suggestions as to why this happens or how I can fix it?

if you got the recovery cd, load it again ....

check if you can get through using safe mode, if you can get through then it could be a corrupt registry try using the system restore or visit this site http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545

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